funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people

Hampstead Row Houses (and Rows over Houses)

David spotted this oh-so-charming scene while cycling through the well-to-do area of Hampstead, London.

Adds David: “The completely knackered fence is in front of an overgrown plot and right next door to a well looked-after house (possibly owned by old folk who are convinced the neighbourhood has gone to ruin.”)

Meanwhile, Alison was a bit perplexed by this note (and the seemingly undisturbed hedge below) in West Hampstead. “I stared at the hedge for ages trying to work out what was wrong with it,” she says. “Finally I just took a picture and ran away.”

It’s the barely contained rage of the British that results in a frenzy of angry notes and letters to the Times. I can only imagine the fury of the locals as they walked past each day tutting and muttering until they took the law into their own hands and WROTE A NOTE!!!! Not even rioters can match the vindictiveness of a little old lady in Hampstead upset at the state of a fence.

I can answer re: the second image. In the UK, that hedge would be considered ‘horrifically overgrown and a disgrace.’ Someone clearly hasn’t trimmed that hedge frequently enough and it’s now being considered an act of vandalism. I have had my share of passive-aggressive notes for not trimming my bloody hedge every fortnight on the dot. Ah, Brits and their damned hedges.

I agree with Miss Pickles that it probably has to do with the hedge looking overgrown and someone ELSE posted it on their building to be sarcastic and/or shame them into cutting it? That is the conclusion I came to after reading it.